Word: standing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spanish 4 and 2 are the only courses which can qualify as Spanish literature courses. The former is a general view, corresponding to French 6, and could almost stand being a full course. Professor Ford gives both this and number 2 on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and Cervantes. The defect of the other Spanish literature courses is that there is too much emphasis on the mechanics of translation. Whittem, and to a lesser degree Rivera, are both at their best on composition and tend to neglect the literary aspect of their material...
...sentimentality in this play is effective, and is likely to appeal to most of those who are not still in the throes of anti-Victorian reaction. The metaphysics in it, however, will not stand much inspection. The idea seems to be that if you had your life to live over and took the wrong course in an effort to be different from what you had been, you could see how wrong the wrong course was, and then go back to your real life and discern the merits of the right course, which you took in the first place...
...electorate approve Mr. Roosevelt, 34.4% disapprove and 10.9% "don't know." This indicates practically no change in popular sentiment since 1936. As to Congress, 47.2% think it should work more closely with the President, and 40.6% prefer it to behave independently. FORTUNE'S conclusion: "Whether business can stand two, four or six years more of what Mr. Roosevelt stands for is beside the point, Business may have no choice in the matter. For the chances that any important number of Mr. Roosevelt's men will be defeated in the primaries this year are very slim...
Save for a brief road tour in 1931-32, a short stand in 1934, oldtime Actress Maude Adams (Peter Pan, The Little Minister) has not made a stage appearance since she retired in 1918. Her only recent connection with the theatre has been as professor of drama at Stephens College, Columbia. Mo. Recently, 65-year-old Maude Adams went to Culver City, Calif., took a screen test. Last week the result was announced: Miss Adams will star in a picture David Selznick plans to produce next fall. Said proud Cinemogul Selznick: "It will be a privilege to introduce...
...told of the marriage of Werner Bertin, who had been one of Grischa's first defenders. Education Before Verdun told how Bertin had learned the facts of war life, and the savagery of conflicts between officers. Now, in The Crowning of a King, the consequences of their stand in the Grischa case are traced in the subsequent careers of people who were involved...